Scott Pelath | It's still about the economy

9:48 PM,
Nov. 5, 2013

Federal workers protest the government shutdown outside the Environmental Protection Agency office in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. As the partial government shutdown enters its second week, Democrats controlling the Senate plan to move quickly toward a vote to allow the government to borrow more money, challenging Republicans to a filibuster showdown as the time remaining to stop a first-ever default on U.S. obligations ticks by. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

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Scott Pelath
Special to The Courier-Journal

For those who can still bear to look, Indiana's unemployment rate remains stuck above 8 percent.

This fall, Ball State University released a report on Indiana's frighteningly suppressed individual earnings.

Our consumers' wages are 14 years behind our fellow Americans. We beat few states outside of the Old Confederacy in per-capita income. The average Hoosier earns barely $34,000 a year from all sources. ...